I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

...the infallible man does not exist.

Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.